Carriage-pole tip



N0. 6l|,839. Patented Oct. 4, I898. F. A. GLASSFUBD.

CARRIAGE POLE TIP.

(A lication filed Jan. 31, 1898.) (No Model.)

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FREDERICK A. GLASSFORD, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

. CARRIAGE-POLE TIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 611,839, dated October 4, 1898. I Application filed January 31, 1898- Serial No. 668,586. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. GLAss FORD, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carriage-Poles, of which the following is a specification. V

This invention relates to poles for carriages and wagons; and it consists in the combination,with the end of the pole, of a hinged hook, to which the whiffletree for a leading team of horses is attached, the object being to provide for easily and readily attachingv and deside, and C is a covering of metal on the upper side, secured by thebolts D D, which pass through the whole.

E is a hook hinged to the front end of the said piece B. F is a latch pivoted in a recess G over the hinge of saidhook. The outer end of said latch is heavier than the inner end, so that it freely assumes the inclined position shown when free to act, which position also holds the hook up by the inner end entering the cavity H in the inner face of the point of the hook, as seen in Fig. 1. It will thus be seen that when the hook is turned up it will latch itself. To unlatch it is done by lifting the outer end of the latch FREDERICK A. GLASSFORD.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. TIBBITTS, HARRY O. MASON. 

